Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the … - Max Beckmann

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Max Beckmann

Learn by heart the forms to be found in nature, so that you can use them like the notes in a musical composition. That is what these forms are for. Nature is a marvelous chaos, and it is our job and our duty to bring order into that chaos and - to perfect it.

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